FEMAL

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FEMALE. This term denotes the sex which bears young.
       2. It is a general rule, that the young of female animals which belong 
  to us, are ours, nam fetus ventrem sequitur. Inst. 2, 1, 19; Dig. 6, 1, 5, 
  2. The rule is, in general, the same with regard to slaves; but when a 
  female slave comes into. a free state, even without the consent of her 
  master, and is there delivered of a child, the latter is free. Vide 


  Feminine; Gender; Masculine.